The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH) denounced repressive acts against at least 30 people linked to different religions during the events that took place around the civic march against the Government of that country on November 15. “The repression against religious was directed, in some cases, from the highest level”Said the OCDH in a […]
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They denounce the arrest of an independent journalist in Cuba
Updated on 11/24/2021 01:34 pm Cuban journalist Héctor Luis Valdéz, employed by the independent newspaper ADN, was arrested this Wednesday in Havana by state security agents, this media reported. The ADN newspaper thus confirmed the complaint that his partner, the LGBTIQ activist and director of the Afro-Cuban Alliance Raúl Soublett, had made through social networks. […]
Cuba supports Nicaragua’s “brave” decision to leave the OAS
Updated on 11/20/2021 12:31 pm Cuba supported this Saturday the “brave” decision of Nicaragua to get out of the Organization of American States (OAS), after it disqualified the November 7 elections won by the current president of the Central American country, Daniel Ortega. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez expressed on Twitter […]
Cuba loses with the departure of García Aguilera the new face of dissidence
The Cuban dissidence lost one of its most visible faces in the country with the march to Madrid by Yunior García Aguilera, leader of the group promoting the frustrated November 15 (15N) protest. The reactions on the island ranged from surprise, disappointment, and support for activism, mockery in the networks of pro-government sectors, and the […]
Fear of repression by the communist regime overcame the nascent culture of protest in Cuba
The November 15 opposition march in Cuba was thwarted by fear of possible repression by the communist regime that controls the country for more than 62 years, which blocked many activists from their homes. But, according to dissidents, it is also due to the young culture of protest on the island. Manuel Cuesta Morúa, a […]
Hundreds of repressive acts prevented protests in Cuba, according to NGO
Communist regime officials from Cuba They carried out more than 300 repressive acts to prevent the protests called in the country, denounced the Cuban Observatory for Human Rights. “Only yesterday we documented more than a hundred repressive actions,” this Madrid-based non-governmental organization said in a statement. Home detention with police surveillance, summons to Police stations, […]
Cuban opponents call for cacerolazos after march repressed by communist regime
A group that called a march that could not be carried out due to the repressive measures of the communist regime in Cuba He called for new protest actions such as touching pans at night, dressing in white or bringing flowers to the hero José Martí. Archipelago, an online platform created by playwright Yunior García […]
The organizers of the pro-democracy protests in Cuba ask to extend them until the end of the month
Archipelago, the Cuban dissident group that called the protest on November 15 (15N), accused the communist regime of violating their fundamental rights and proposed prolonging the protests until November 27. In a statement issued at dawn to take stock of the previous day, he argued that “the causes that motivated the call for the 15N […]
Protests in Cuba fail due to repression of communist regime as tourists return to the island
A call to protest in Cuba For civil rights failed this Monday when most Cubans stayed away from the streets before the repression of the communist regime that has controlled the island for more than 62 years, which seemed to end a confrontation with dissidents the same day that the country reopened its borders to […]
Protests in Cuba seeking political change
The march called this Monday by the Cuban dissident group Archipelago, frustrated by a strong deployment of the security forces, is heir to the few but loud protests that have marked the history of the island in recent decades. On rare occasions, Cubans have publicly demonstrated against their government since the triumph of the Revolution […]